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Unmoderated forums? Your thoughts.

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    #32
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    The thunderdome was probably the most unmoderated and look what happened there :(


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    #33
    Deank
    Registered Users Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Deank


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    They tried that with The Thunderdome but it turned into a mess and got shut down.

    It just moved elsewhere ;)


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    #34
    Jericho.
    Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭Jericho.


    Everything in moderation


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    #35
    Deank
    Registered Users Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Deank


    Buona Fortuna wrote: »
    I've heard talk of people being stalked onto FB and Twit and then back to Thunderdome - sounds a bit like the Hunger Games




    Really?

    All scurrilous accusations, none of them true.:)


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    #36
    minidazzler
    Registered Users Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Unmodded forums have their place on the internet. And that place is not here.


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    #37
    Pablodreamsofnew
    Registered Users Posts: 430 ✭✭Pablodreamsofnew


    I think it would just go bad, quickly. Too many weird people, myself included.


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    #38
    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    They tried that with The Thunderdome but it turned into a mess and got shut down.

    Amazing how the new one is going great with not a hint of drama.


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    #39
    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    MrsYelnekoff wrote: »
    I think it would just go bad, quickly. Too many weird people, myself included.

    Have to agree with you there, totally unmoderated forums would be mental. Were those teen ones where a few got mental bullying and committed suicide recently not moderated?


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    #40
    e_e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    We have such garbage and it's called 4chan.


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    #41
    Hotfail.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Hotfail.com


    bumper234 wrote: »
    Have to agree with you there, totally unmoderated forums would be mental. Were those teen ones where a few got mental bullying and committed suicide recently not moderated?

    Are you talking about ask.fm (the yoke where you could ask questions anonymously)? That has (or used to have, haven't seen it in ages tbh) no pre-moderation AFAIK, you could report a question if it offended you or whatever but that's fairly useless because at that stage the damage is already done.


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    #42
    2011
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,555 Mod ✭✭✭✭2011


    The result would be an unusable forum completely filled with spam, shilling, trolls and cr@p.
    Mostly spam.

    Be careful what you wish for :)


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    #43
    Not G.R
    Registered Users Posts: 509 ✭✭✭Not G.R


    e_e wrote: »
    We have such garbage and it's called 4chan.

    4chan is moderated. 90% of the content on 4chan is great and SFW. The other part is /b/, their version of AH and it's still moderated. To an extent.


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    #44
    thee glitz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭thee glitz


    I'd like to see the Daily Mail comments section unmoderated for a day, for charity maybe


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    #45
    Deank
    Registered Users Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Deank


    2011 wrote: »
    The result would be an unusable forum completely filled with spam, shilling, trolls and cr@p.
    Mostly spam.

    Be careful what you wish for :)

    I already have that ;)


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    #46
    harvester of sorrow
    Registered Users Posts: 832 ✭✭✭harvester of sorrow


    Links234 wrote: »
    I'll kill you Leonard Nimoy

    Did we just become best friends?


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    #47
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    After seeing some of the abuse and name calling a particular OP got yesterday for having particular believes for himself,I certainally would want a moderated boards.


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    #48
    2011
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,555 Mod ✭✭✭✭2011


    I am struggling to see the advantage TBH.

    You would not believe the amount of spam deleted.
    This would just increase exponentially.


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    #49
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,022 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Macavity. wrote: »
    DR is nobody's friend, only once have I ever seen a decision over turned.

    Lol. Theres loads and loads of decisions overturned.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #50
    Hotfail.com
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Hotfail.com


    2011 wrote: »
    I am struggling to see the advantage TBH.

    You would not believe the amount of spam deleted.
    This would just increase exponentially.

    I agree, although I do think this place does suffer from overmoderation at times. Probably because Boards can be held accountable for anything dodgy people post (or can it?).


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    #51
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    Lol. Theres loads and loads of drcisions overturned.

    No one's genna argue are they? :)


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    #52
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,022 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Buona Fortuna wrote: »
    No one's genna argue are they? :)

    What?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #53
    irishguy1983
    Registered Users Posts: 1,389 ✭✭✭irishguy1983


    www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com

    I love it but you can't have serious discussion - just ends up in a piss take.

    Here I find you can barely have an opinion - I'd like somewhere in between.


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    #54
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,022 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    realies wrote: »
    After seeing some of the abuse and name calling a particular OP got yesterday for having particular believes for himself,I certainally would want a moderated boards.

    I presume you meant "would NOT want"

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #55
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    My ideal would be about half way between AH and an unmoderated forum. Somewhere like GameFAQs I guess. Moderation to enforce the rules, but minimal "administrative" moderation like you get here (the kind where no specific rules are being broken but threads are locked because "it's getting out of hand" - never seen the point of this, if you find a thread annoying just don't keep reading it)


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    #56
    Shakespeare's Sister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


    The Thunderdome used to be hilarious, but then the joke became serious.
    AlanS181824 wrote: »
    Well I just got banned from the Android forum for helping other users...
    Sure thang. ;)


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    #57
    leBIT
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭leBIT


    endacl wrote: »
    4chan>>>

    4chan has lots of mods...


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    #58
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Magaggie wrote: »
    The Thunderdome used to be hilarious, but then the joke became serious.

    Sure thang. ;)

    That was a WMD situation. The new Dome is drama free, much the same posters, minus a few casualties, very little moderation, no spam. Not to everyones taste, but there you go.


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    #59
    Macavity.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭Macavity.


    Magaggie wrote: »
    The Thunderdome used to be hilarious, but then the joke became serious.

    Was there not a joke about rape that caused a bit of a stir as well?


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    #60
    Itsdacraic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,361 ✭✭✭Itsdacraic


    You people are needy, you want to be dictated to. Sure you will complain about the mods, but in reality you crave the regime of it. 90% of the screaming marys on here wouldn't last 10 minutes in an unmoderated forum.

    There are plenty of unmoderated forums out there that work very well, with real discussion, but would be too rough around the edges for most of you.


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    #61
    Deank
    Registered Users Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Deank


    Magaggie wrote: »
    The Thunderdome used to be hilarious, but then the joke became serious.

    Sure thang. ;)

    Oh it still is.

    That link, well lets just say don't believe everything you read on the internet.


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